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I think I like Michelle Obama.

(And god, thank god Bill wasn’t there.)

Categories: Politics

Earlier:

• March 18, 2005 - Silly Question •  August 9, 2005 - Neato News From Afghanistan • September 6, 2005- Big Opium • [June 8, 2006 - The Deadly Poppy Field](The Deadly Poppy Field)

Plus:

• May 8, 2006 - Simple Simplistic (and Occam’s Razor?) • June 28, 2007 - Breaking Sense from Two Years Ago • August 20, 2007 - This […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Today’s Political Diary:

Scotland’s Coming Boom The next country to adopt Reaganite tax reduction policies likely will be Scotland. Alex Salmond, who serves as “First Minister” and heads his government’s ruling coalition, was in New York recently to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange and deliver a message […]

Categories: Politics

How could I have never heard of Uncle Jay?

Uncle Jay Explains the News - July 2, 2007 on FunnyOrDie.com

Curtsy: CDR Salamander

So I counted up the days on the calendar at the end and got… 78.

Gosh they sure do cause a lot of trouble for 78 days on the job.

Categories: Politics

Telegraph - Australia has not buried John Howard yet. By Simon Heffer

Gerard Henderson, one of Sydney’s most distinguished political commentators and the director of the conservative think tank the Sydney Institute, pointed out to me yesterday that all changes of government in Australia since the war have been in circumstances where the prime […]

Categories: Politics

FOX 411 - Reese Witherspoon-Jake Gyllenhaal Romance Didn’t Help ‘Rendition’ By Roger Friedman

Movie star romances used to be the thing that made box office numbers soar. Think Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” or Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn in “The Break-Up.” Another great example: Tom […]

Categories: Entertainment

So we just watched Crash.

I had no idea people in Los Angeles were such racist, abusive d.cks.

Categories: Entertainment

So I listened to the entirety of the Shire Network News’ interview with Filip Dewinter of Valaams Belang (mirrored by LGF), and I admit I wasn’t paying total and complete attention throughout (it’s a half hour long, for crying out loud), so I’m not entirely sure what it is that he said that was so […]

Categories: Business & Media

Op For - Speaking of Slab

So far, it’s been an effing boring deployment. [My wife] asked what I wanted for Christmas, and I said “Insurgents.”

Times Online - Suicide bomber kills seven near Musharraf HQ

Never let it be said that Barack Obama doesn’t support our troops.

Categories: War and Peace

(How’s that for a grouchy title?)

The Times - Trick or treat. . . and no cyanide There are few cultural differences between America and Britain as great as Hallowe’en. Chris Ayres: LA Notebook

There are few cultural differences between America and Britain as great as Hallowe’en. When Americans think of it, they think of small […]

Categories: People and Current Events

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It’s true. But it took an Aussie to point it out.

Curtsy: Brett McS.

Categories: Entertainment

AP - Germany Cracks Down on Forced Marriages

Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined a growing movement to criminalize forced marriages in Germany, which is growing less tolerant of practices among Muslim immigrants that clash with the nation’s liberal social values. Forced marriages are generally imposed by young women’s families to keep […]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Cometh the hour, cometh the man with the cheeky grin. Magnus Linklater: Political sketch

He could have come before them and read the electoral register for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber and he would still have got a standing ovation. The Scottish National Party has waited 73 years for this – […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Ah, communication. Communication is key, to winning back our Western European allies, the ones Bush lost with his cowboyish ways. Or so John Kerry said. Well, leave it to the media to know how to do it:

Times Online - ‘Sarko the American’ storms off set in CBS interview

He then stormed off […]

Categories: Business & Media

NRO - Who Is Team Captain? The Republican field is strong. By Charles Krauthammer

Major grumbling among conservatives about the Republican field. So many candidates, so many flaws. Rudy Giuliani, abortion apostate. Mitt Romney, flip-flopper. John McCain, Mr. Amnesty. Fred Thompson, lazy boy. Where is the paragon? Where is Ronald Reagan? Well, […]

Categories: Politics